WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. – The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two people who died in a rafting accident on the Nooksack River on Tuesday, June 14.
John Coleman, 55, of Berkeley, California and his 10-year-old son both drowned.
They were among five people, including a guide, who were aboard the commercially-operated raft when it overturned near Glacier.
The guide was able to get two women to safety but the man and boy were swept downstream.